Infancy
Emotions that appear in the first six months of a human infant’s development and are also present in animals are known as the ________ emotions.
primary
Scaffolding means
changing the level of support depending on the need.
What physical change is less noticeable in middle and late childhood?
bones continue to ossify
One of the socioemotional changes adolescents undergo is
quest for independence.
The embryonic period lasts ________ weeks after conception.
from two to eight
perceptual development in infancy must await the development of a sequence of cognitive stages in infants.Is who's theory?
Piaget’s constructivist view
Freud claimed that early childhood experiences
are important determinants of later personality development.
According to Piaget’s theory of cognitive development, ______ are mental actions that are reversible.
operations
Hall emphasized which of the following in adolescence?
conflict and mood swings of youth
DNA are housed in threadlike structures called
chromosomes.
The sensory and motor developments in infants generally proceed according to the ________ principle.
cephalocaudal
Explain initiative versus guilt
According to Erikson’s theory, during the initiative versus guilt stage of psychosocial development, children are to assume responsibility for their bodies, their behavior, their toys, and their pets.
What is dysgraphia?
difficulty writing legibly and makes spelling errors often
The formal operational stage is characterized by
abstract thinking.
The scientific term for a fertilized egg is known as a(n)
zygote.
The sequence in which growth starts at the center of the body and moves towards the extremities.
proximodistal pattern.
During which of Piaget’s stages do children begin to go beyond simply connecting sensory information with physical action and begin to represent the world with words and images reflecting more symbolic thinking?
preoperational
According to Kenneth Dodge, what is the first step that children go through in processing information about their social world?
decoding social cues
________involve what is important to us and are beliefs and attitudes about the way things should be.
Values
A recessive gene exerts its influence only if the two genes of a pair are both recessive. Is based on what principle?
dominant-recessive gene principle
What is habituation?
When an infant attends to a given stimulus presented often, and then becomes less and less attentive to it,
Assimilation occurs when children
use their existing schemes to deal with new information or experiences.
Neglected children are
infrequently nominated as a best friend but are not disliked by their peers.
In Erikson’s psychosocial stages of development, adolescents decide who they are during which stage?
identity versus identity confusion
The postpartum is the period after childbirth that lasts until the mother’s body has completed its adjustment and returned to a nearly prepregnant state.